CHICAGO - A seed developer is facing another wave of litigation over a genetically-engineered corn seed that a group of farmers contend crippled the U.S. export market in China and caused a decline in corn prices, a combination they assert will lead to a projected $1.14 billion loss this year.
BonderPlaintiffs claiming State Farm corruptly secured the election of Illinois Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier in 2004 can also investigate the victory of current Chief Justice Rita Garman in 2002, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Williams decided on Aug. 27. At a conference in district court, he ordered State Farm to comply with a subpoena for campaign documents back to April 2001. Plaintiff counsel
WoodU.S. District Judge Phil Gilbert of Benton properly blocked the access of environmental groups to irrelevant documents that St. Louis lawyer Stephen Tillery filed in a suit against Syngenta Corporation, Seventh District judges ruled on Aug. 20.They affirmed Gilbert’s decision to preserve seals on documents that Tillery had not cited in his pleadings. Chief Justice Diane Wood wrote that Gilbert
CHICAGO – Nature groups claim a Supreme Court precedent that prevents abuse of discovery from litigation doesn’t apply to them because they won’t abuse it.
It seems like everything’s “secret” or “confidential” nowadays. Are there suddenly more things that deserve to remain confidential, or is there an unconscious or deliberate classification inflation going on?
An article in the June 17th Environmental Health News reported that St. Louis attorney Stephen Tillery had “shifted his strategy” in his long-running, court-condoned attack on Syngenta Corp.
BELLEVILLE – Two lawyers plan to pursue a St. Clair County injury suit against Syngenta, producer of weed killer atrazine, with documents that Syngenta’s owners arranged for a third lawyer to destroy.